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4 unusual facts about Cosmo Landesman


Camilla Long

It emerged, at the beginning of July 2013, that Long was to succeed Cosmo Landesman as film critic of The Sunday Times.

Cosmo Landesman

Cosmo Landesman is the oldest of two sons of Jay and Fran Landesman, a writer and impresario, and a lyricist and poet, from St. Louis and New York, respectively.

With his wife Julie Burchill and friend Toby Young, he founded the magazine The Modern Review, which operated from 1991 into 1995 with Young as editor.

Jay Landesman

Cosmo Landesman's own memoir of his family Star Struck: Fame, My Family and Me (2008) details his ambivalence about them, their self-promotion ("Hell has no hustler like Jay with a new project"), acid-trips and unconventional lifestyle.



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